Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-10-27

uuu ucdtiy uiWHls ms, uut Suc HAS iii-
sistad right along that 1t is no place to
bring up children. Espec allt boys.
The wav Sunday Is observed in the
city has always bothered her more than
anyth ng else. She says it is scandal
Gus. Every street Car that goes past
worries her. And when she hears of II
baseball game or concert it fairly sets
her wild.
Mrs. Urban says it Is all different in
the country. She has always admitted
that she moved away from the country
when she was xteen months old, but
then she insists right along that she
knows how it is just the same This
summer she said she was going to
prove it-she was going 10 give her
three boys week or two OF rural sim
plicty. away from the dcmoral z ny
effects of the sinful and Sab ,ath break
ing city. So she came out 20 vsit her
uncle who Ives on farm in Oak ota.
She told Urban 1t would let the bows
see what it was to keep Sunday and
that next summer she would sen
them out and let them stay all throug h
vacation.
They arrived Mt Uncle Ezekiers on
Saturday. "Ah," thought Mrs. Urban,
Tomorrow the bo,s can see the Sab.
bath observed with good, old-fashioned
rural simplicity.
The next morning about the time the
morning star rose aud when nothing
but some young and over-enthusiast C
roosters had begun to crow. she heard
dear Uncle Eek oil pound on the stairs
with the boot-jack aud yell for the
hired men to get up. And while she
was eating breakfast by candle-light
Uncle Ezekiel explained that they had
cause it was getting so powerful ripe.
Mrs. Urban sighed and the boys went
out doors. where their cousin b II made
fun of them because they didn't chew
tobacco. aud finally induced them to
try little.
Then B II explained that he wasn't
going to work that day because he was
sick. and when Mrs. Urban's boys
asked him if he wasn't going 10 church
then he threw stone ut stray cat
and said not IL he know Il himself.
Then he got the shotgun and before
Mrs Urban knew it he and her boys
had gone OF hunting. though 1t lacked
two weeks Of the time when they could
do so according to law.
And while they were gone Bill fnis h.
sd teaching them how to chew tobacco
and had Tommy, the eldest one, shoot
two hens belonging to n farmer. Aud
he also gave the boys one or two easy
lessons IN swearing.
When they came back Mrs. Urban
was greatly ag tated and gave them
severe talking TO. but after little
while she got interested visiting with
Uncle Ezekiers wife aud Bill wnked
at the boys through the window and
they went out and he led the way ami
they all bent over and skulked along
behind the fence aud went down half u
mile where big crowd OF bows were
smoking out badger. And while they.
were there Bill bet jack-knife that
Bobby, the youngest Urban boy.
couldn't lick a certain other boy. and
after they had fought and rolled in the
dirt fifteen minutes Bobby found out
that lac couldn't.
Then Bill took them back home and
on tho way snapped knives and mar
blss and other treasures with them aud
cheated them out of all they had.
Dinner wasn't quite really and Bill
put Harry. the other Urban boy,
through the W ndow into his mothers
pantry and hal him steal tv o pies.
When Mrs. U, ban saw ,obby she
came pretty near crying. But at
dinner Uncle Ezekiel said they had
lin shed cutting the wheat and that
after he had dug enough potatoes for
the rest of the week and fixed the
pasture fence aud trimmed some trees
and mended the harness and straight
ened up the lghtn ng rod on the barn,
that they would hook up aud take q
ride.
And while his father was attend q
to these matters Bill took the bo, over
across the field 10 a ball game. Aud
while they were there he told Tommy
that he would give him two slate
pencils and bean-shooter 4 he would
lick another boy, and after they had
rolled on the ground and pulled hair
for twenty minutes Tommy Il scOvered
that he could never earn personal
property that way.
ANU thCN WCub OdCh 6uu w Ludb
time Uncle Eek 81 was ready to tch
up aud take n long. pleasant ride in
the quiet, peaceful country on that
calm. pleasant Sabbath afternoon.
And they hooked up tn colts and
Mrs. Urban and the BOYS and Uncle
Ezekiel and all his fam ly got in; and
Uncle Ezekiel drove three miles TO q
horse-race, and had Bill rdn the roam
colt and won $40 on the first heat and
lost S15 on the second. And Mrs.
Urban thought she'd faint; but she
didn't.
Aud on the way back man tried to
drive past them, but dear old Uncle
Ezekiel stood up and leaned over the
dashboard and hooted Mt the sorrel
colt and let 'em out and left that
man and passed two other teams.
And after they got home Bill and
the boys and the hired men pitched
"quaits" back OF the barn till dark
while uncle Ezekiel moved the grass
in the front yard and used language
worse than hornets when one of them
got down the back of his neck.
And after dark that night Bill took
the bows down and they robbed
SOU re Windsor's watermelon patch.
and Tommy and Harry got b rd-shot
fired into their legs when they got over
the fence. and Bobby had his clothes
all torn by dog.
Aud the next day in the forenoon
Mrs. Urban and the boys took the train
for home and Urban SAYS he hssn't
heard a word about those peaceful Ar
cadian Sabbsths in the country since
they got back. --Dakota Bell.